Tomatoes Everywhere (Green)

Hello there!! I spent all yesterday making up a batch of the plum-Worcestershire sauce – its a big undertaking. Its an old recipe I got from Ruby and its been about 2 years since I made it last. I think it made up well over 7 litres of sauce!! I was running back and forth to the stove all day… it comes to the boil VERY slowly but I am paranoid since the time I left Jeff in charge of it and we had a boil over – in among other things there is 5lb of sugar and 3 tins of treacle. Tell me that mess didn’t take an eon to clean!!!!
So now I am – careful….

I made a very sad discovery. Three or so rows of corn eaten by the cows. There haven’t been cows here in a year and I just didn’t think of the proximity to the fence when I planted. I know better now but I was still sad.

I put this up as a deterrent – just hoping its enough although I think they got all they could reach. Now they are busy pruning all the bushes further up the fence line. But I am not lovingly attached to those.
The corn has had a rough few days! The wind!!!
I found this stalk snapped off on the ground.

I got Jeff to come out and help me attach some shade cloth on the new fence. Sadly it doesn’t improve the look, but might just give a little wind protection.
Once we do the finishing touches on the fence we might put up a permanent and nicer looking windbreak with some new shade cloth.

So… tomatoes. We have a few.

The patch of tomato lateral plants is going along fabulously

More cherry tomatoes than you can point a stick at…

A few red ones here and there

Now the weather needs to warm back up so they can ripen!

The three watermelons are getting a little bigger!

Here’s an odd thing… one of the pumpkin vines turned up its toes! I followed it back to the plant and found it had rotten off!! ?? I haven’t had that before. Shame because there was a nice pumpkin at the end of that!

Lucky I have a few more growing

I need to look up what capsicum I planted! I want to know when they are ready for picking!

When my niece Emma was here she planted a heap of flowers for me (Including the sunflowers that were eaten by Little Moo)
They have come up beautifully and its a real pleasure to walk by this spot in the garden!

Today I went back to the fire trails in the forest with Jeff for another hike… avoided the straight down gravel paths… Megumi came along too! I didn’t take the camera, but I did load up my pack for the first time. Only put in 11kg as I thought that was enough to start. We did 6km and it was all pretty comfortable. My shoulders only started telling me about it quietly near the end of the hike, so thats good. See how they feel about it tomorrow!! 😀

Hope your day was great too
Cheers